Morrolepis
Temporal range: Late Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous
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Morrolepis aniscowitchi fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Family:
†Coccolepididae
Genus:
†Morrolepis

Kirkland, 1998
Binomial name
†Morrolepis schaefferi
Kirkland, 1998
Other species
  • †M. andrewsi (Woodward, 1891)
  • †M. aniscowitchi (Gorizdor-Kulczycka, 1926)

Morrolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric coccolepidid "palaeoniscoid" ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous epochs in Europe, Asia and North America.[1]

The type species is Morrolepis schaefferi from the Morrison Formation (Colorado, Utah), measuring approximately 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in length.[2] The other species were previously referred to the genus Coccolepis.[1] Including M. andrewsi (Woodward, 1891) from the earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Group, England and M. aniscowitchi (Gorizdor-Kulczycka, 1926) from the late Middle Jurassic-early Late Jurassic (Callovian/Oxfordian) Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Skrzycka, Roksana (2014). "Revision of two relic actinopterygians from the Middle or Upper Jurassic Karabastau Formation, Karatau Range, Kazakhstan". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 38 (3): 364–390. doi:10.1080/03115518.2014.880267. S2CID 129308632.
  2. ↑ Kirkland, James Ian (1998). "Morrison fishes". Modern Geology. 22: 503–533.


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